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So Scot, what is going to be with unsold plants? Trashed? Donated? Relisted?
:woohoonaner:
Cosider me about that Goldfinger if U change your mind.

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Composted. :D

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I believe he's already got a couple of deals going folks.

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Thank you so much to everyone! Your help has made my dream become a reality. I will not be posting much for awhile as I will be busy trying to get everything ready for you.

I have one more thing to auction that I had forgotten all about. I have a boatload of various seeds that I have accumulated over the past year. Some may be good, some may be bad, it is purely pot luck. In all, I probably have 10,000-40,000 seeds. Since my laptop was stolen, I no longer have a clue how many there are. There are tropicals, bonsai tree (pine and hardwood), arid climate, Australian, and just about everything in between. I remember some very unique and beautiful Chinese strain poppy and peony seeds, plumeria, canna, Iris and magnolia, water lilly, bamboo, and of course a few banana seeds. Please do not email me for a detailed list, as I do not have time to go through all of the packets - there are lots of them.
I will say that I have paid well over $800 to accumulate these over the past year. I am quite certain that the majority of them are still viable for gemination.

This auction will end on this Sunday 7/19/09 at 8 pm PST. The bidding starts at $25.00 and shipping will be calculated for the winner. Just post your bids here and then everyone will know who is in the lead. Have fun! I have no doubts that the winner will be pleasantly surprised at the number and variety of seeds they will get!

I also have a full set of men's golf clubs, including a Scotty Cameron Putter ($350) and 2 Titleist metal woods, a Driver (905-T) extended to 48" and a 3 wood - both with Aldila Graphite shafts. The 3-PW are Ram Laser X2's Cast with steel shafts, all extended 1 1/2-2" and there are 4 Wedges, 3 Mizuno Forged - 52/56 and 60 degree loft, along with an Arnold Palmer Sand Wedge and bag. $50 opening bid - plus shipping. Ends Sunday at 8 pm as well.

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I bid $25 for the seeds! :D

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Scot,

I wish you the best on your trip. I hope that as soon as possible you can continue to share your wealth of knowledge and joy. Be safe and don't forget about us.

alex

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Don't be bashful folks, feel free to outbid me on the seeds. I'd gladly take them for $25 but would be equally happy to see Scot get a few hundred bucks for them.

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I can offer $10 each of the 2 Lateritas, if they are still unsold. Thanks.

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I'll take one of those lateritas for $25.

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$30 for the seeds Please!
Am starting to collect cannas too....OH NO!!!! :D ~Cheryl

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I bid $35 on the seeds :P

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Just one question. How did you store your seeds? In Tupperware in the fridge with rice?



Also is the Goldfinger still available?

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They were stored in the refrigerator for the first several months, inside of paper or plastic bags. Lately, they have not been refrigerated, but stored in a cool, dry spot inside of the house. (My landlord/roommate did not want them taking up space in the fridge.)

Some are still in the original foil packs and paper packs. Hope this answers your question.

I will have to let you know on the Goldfinger. Right now, I am swamped and need a few days to get a handle on things. I should know tomorrow, but in the event it is available, it looks like everyone is just putting their bids on this thread, so I would say that's the best thing to do until I can confirm its availability. Sorry I can't be more definite at the moment. Thanks!

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Update: Golf Clubs sold. Thanks!

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Seeds...$40...:08: :ha:

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Seeds $50 :2723:

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Seeds: $51.00 and I'll share with Harvey and Cheryl if they want.

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C'mon, it's worth hundreds and Scot is your friend... :D

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We're just getting started, Jack. Besides, the auction ends on Sunday which happens to be my birthday so I was going to let Bob have the chance to surprise me! :ha:

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Fine Jack , how many seeds do you want? You can have a few of mine if I get some.:ha: ...........and yeah they are worth much more but, why not take advantage of Scot when you have the chance!

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Hi Scot

you take care over there. try and teach them some correct spellings/grammar and not the 'colonial' forms you lot use :ha:

They'll all of been watching CSI, so if you tell them you've arrived from Henderson they'll undoubtedly back off.

I take it your following your heart which is always the best way

Find us a nice new nana species or two. or better still get down to Xishuangbanna and sort them out, there's got to be an export business there if they could get their S..t together

regards good luck and keep in touch

Kev :waving:

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Bid $75 for the seeds. I can't spend too much money....I think my cell phone just went swimming in the alfalfa field. I have insurance on it for situations like that, but I think my co-pay is still something like $150. I need to go out there and try calling myself...wish me luck. (I was probably taking the life of a vole with my shovel when I lost it.)

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good luck!

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Yeah Harvey...
Good luck on finding your phone, I've lost all of mine to water or mud. :) ~Cheryl

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No luck, it's dead. I dialed it and it rang the first time and after that it must have shorted out and now my call goes directly to voice mail. At least I have insurance, it would probably cost me $500 otherwise.

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Would that qualify as something Tog would have done. LOL.

alex

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Tog would have lost his in the jungle, except I don't think he'd take one out to begin with. I had two business calls within an hour before I lost it. One to get terms on an agreement to get some trees cut on the levee on my farm and another to get a federal trapper out to shoot some coyotes that keep ripping up my irrigation lines. Hard to operate without a mobile phone these days. My co-pay ended up being $100, new one is on the way.

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Yay Harvey!!! Hope they're overnighting that phone!

I have Asurion Insurance on my phone, they are really good!
Husband jumped in the pool & forgot he had his phone on him, called Asurion...BAM...next Morning, new phone.

Ooh...coyotes(mean things)...

Hope everything gets rectified & you catch-up/get ahead on your work Harvey!

Have a goodnight Y'all!!! :) ~Cheryl

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Dunno. Nope, I couldn't practically use those seeds for anything. I'm a Dfa zone, meaning wet periods year round (unlike Scot), severe winters (unlike Scot)... that would be a waste of shipping, cause I'm pretty sure that none of those would be able to survive my climate. ;)

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hahahahaha!!!!! (my last one is in the Atlantic off of Massachusetes)

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Jack you would be surprised. I started the collection while living in zone 4-5 in Northern Illinois. So there are some perennials in the lot plus many hardwood trees that are popular.

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Why do you tempt me man...? :D

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Huh? Maybe this will sound familiar! :ha:

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:lurk: Yep. :D

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Did I mention plumeria seeds, bamboo (about 10 different var), a few ingens seeds, aurantiaca, e. perrieri, 'Higa', beccarii, Helen's hybrid, balbisiana, New Bhutan, Bael fruit, Elephant apple, Carica papaya, Bauhinia, Arbutus unedo, Paulownia tomentosa and imperialis, some Andean Mountain plants, Passion Vines - lots of varieties, Acacia trees - (lots of them), Tiger's Claw Tree, all kinds of Proteas, Elephant head Amaranth, Mother Tree, White Sandalwood, Red Hot Poker, Siberian Wallflower, Bolivian Nasturtium, Red Sandalwood, Larkspur, Orange Jasmine, Century Plant, Ginger lily, all different colors of Bat Flowers - (Black, green maroon, white, green) Gardenia, Tea plants, Desert Rose (Adenium obesum), Australian Honeysuckle, Mangrove Hibiscus, Ixia viridifolia, Glory Lily, Daturas, Anadenanthea colubrina, all kinds of Pea and Coral vines, Several types of peppers, Jacaranda, Vine Maple, Teak tree, African Tulip tree, White and purple beauty berry - including American and Japanese varieties, Gunnera, Arroyo lupine, Tamarind tree, Mountain Cypress -((very rare) Widdringtonia nodiflora), California Redwood, English Yew, Red mimosa, Cotoneaster, Strawberry snowball tree, Polynesian Ironwood, Madagascar Jabily tree, Champaca tree (Joy perfume tree)Asian Bush Beech, Mesquite, St Thomas tree, Siberian Flowering Crab, Perfume tree, Firethorn, Bilimbi pickle fruit tree, Lignum vitae, Dwarf Pomegranate, Rose Mallow, Black Walnut, Japanese White pine, Noble Fir, Mugo Pine, Bald Cypress, Mexican Yellow Pine, Dawn redwood, Giant Sequoia, Japanese Cedar, Japanese Juniper, New Zealand Christmas Tree, Dwarf Siberian pine, Fraser Fir, Monterey Pine, Japanese Yezo Spruce, Sode No Uchi - Japanese Maple, Japanese Persimmon, Japanese Pagoda tree, Oyama Magnolia, Bamboo leaf Japanese Maple, Japanese Zelkova, Japanese Camellia hybrid - Pink, Fatsia japonica, Higan Japanese Dwarf Weeping Cherry, Umeshu Japanese Red/Purple ornamental Plum tree, Chinese Lactiflora Hybrids Paeonia, Japanese Magnolia, Queen Charlotte blue - Sweet Violet, African Iris, Yellow Flag Iris, Black Iris, Japanese Iris, White Chinese Wisteria, Purple Chinese Wisteria, Chinese Witch Hazel, Chinese Elm, Chinese Weeping Golden Chain tree, Chinese Tea plant - Camellia sinensis, Chinese Aralia, Chinese Allspice, Toon Tree - Toona sinensis, Chinese Redbud - Cercis chinensis, Chinese Fan Palm, Mexican Red Bird of Paradise, Mexican Hat - Red and Yellow, Silver Princess Eucalyptus, Dragon Tree Agave, Joshua Tree, Texas Ebony, Desert Willow, Empress Tree, Strawberry Guava, Ashwagandha Indian Ginseng, Bottle Tree, Sapphire Tower (Puya alpestris), West Australian Christmas Tree, Mexican Cycas palm, Hairy Acacia, Karoo Boer Bean, Waratah tree, Australian Corkwood, Acacia catechu, Daubenya marginataAcacia confusa, Flamboyant tree, Yucca rigida, elata and glauca, Baobob tree, Texas Red Yucca, Dragon Blood Tree, Palo Verde Tree.......and so on.

Well, that might give you an idea of the breadth of the seeds in this deal. Thanks!

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I also have 2 seedlings of Maclayi from seeds. They are still pretty small, averaging about 5-6 inches, but they are hard to find here. The only way to ship these is overnight or second day express at the most.
Bids start at $10 each. This will be a short auction and ends tomorrow night at 5 pm Pacific time. Please keep the shipping cost in mind, as these are fragile little buggers. (On the bright side, they are light in weight)

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looks like you got the 'seed buying' bug pretty bad. been there...LOL

gotta then find the time,space and will to germinate the little blighters.

whereabouts in china are you going?

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Yes I had it bad. OCD is what I call it. Ha ha Anyway, initially I will be in Zhuhai for the first month. Then hopefully in Changsha. This could change depending upon assignment and need. It really is my wish to be land in Changsha but anywhere is fine for the first six months. Then I can pretty much dictate where I want to go.

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Scott,

I'm interested in the maclayi, but I have no idea how any of this works. Did I miss something on the "for sale and auction" page?

Russell

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Hi Russell, nope you are doing it just fine. Watch this page for anyone bidding higher. At 8 pm the winner gets the plant or plants that they bid. I will then ask for shipping info and you pay via Paypal. Simple.

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Scot, OCD stopped at half of that list. That is called seed insanity. If half those seed germinate we could beautify america, and probably the world. Were you preparing for a seed shortage, LOL.

alex

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Hey Harvey,
We did do something Tog would have done, we DERAILED a thread started by a known thread derailer himself, now if that aint Tog.

alex

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Well, the bidding is finally over. The winner of the seeds is Harvey (rightfully so, due to his hard work keeping track of everything for me) and Russel Coker wins the Maclayi, if he wants them. He just expressed an interest, not a bid commitment, but since he was the only one, they are his for the asking.

I still need to hear back from some of you for your shipping address and shipping preference. I am sending out some tomorrow and want to have it completed by Tuesday, please. Once you give me this info, I can have your package weighed, confirm the total with shipping and get these out to you. As soon as you get your invoice, please send the Paypal payment the same day if at all possible. I have quite a few things on my plate now, and will not have much time to deal with much else.

Thanks again to everyone on Bananas.org I never expected such a wonderful response. As I have said before, I am deeply humbled by your generosity and the outpouring of kindness. I have received over 200 emails from all of you and will reply to every one of them when I get settled.

I also want to say that I have tried to use every possible means of keeping your bananas and other plants alive during shipping. They were packed with care and I pray that all of them grow like crazy for you. If I mixed something up, please accept my sincere apologies. Trying to unpot, clean, pack and label all of these in 105-114 degree heat has been a bigger challenge than I imagined. So far, they all have fantastic root development and I have tried to save as much of the root system as possible. Quite a few were larger than the box, so they had to be trimmed. Most of the leaves will be removed to slow transpiration during shipping in this heat. They WILL bounce back once you get them into the ground. New leaves will pop and away they go! In some of the much larger pstems, a cut was made just under the first petioles, so I did not hack off a big chunk of the pstem, it just looks like I did. (It nearly brought me to tears having to do it) All pups that were seperated have good roots and look good.

Please remember to send your shipping address and shipping preference ASAP! I can't ship them without it. I also cannot keep them fresh once they are de-potted.

With many thanks,

Scot

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I am proud of you all for derailing this thread! I would have expected no less. Tog would be proud, too. I was just waiting for Beth to jump in.....

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Im still learnin this thread derailin thing, but im workin on it, I promise

BTW speaking of heat, have you seen central texas, man heat and drought. naners not doing good at all down there.

alex

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Congrats Harvey!
U got nice birthday present :nanadrink:
:woohoonaner:

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Hi Scot.

I'm excited about the maclayi and hope I will do you proud.

I'm only sorry that I didn't join sooner to take advantage of your other offerings. I wish you well and can't wait to see what you find next!

Russell

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Here in Houston we have a drought watch where I can only water within certain times which are usually the time Im at work. or on certain days.

Its a pain but Im trying to work around it. The nanners are doing good I make sure I give lots of water first.

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Scot, glad to hear that the auction went well. I wish you well in China and am glad that I got to meet up with you at least once. Looking forward to hearing from you once you get settled in China.

Best of luck, buddy!

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Hi Scot-

I've sent you emails to the stated address with my shipping information, etc. Let me know if you've not received it.

Can't wait for my new plants!

Cheers-

Andy